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I'm not sure they're predicting beyond where the US has already gone, just that other countries seem to be following the same trend. The trend shown can't continue in a linear fashion forever, and I don't think they'd argue that it's going down, so best guess at what they'd predict is that it will level off soon.

Really neat deep dive into a seemingly simple process. It talks about L-Systems, which are cool fractals built from very simple rules. The guy that made a map of reddit also made an L-System visualizer:

https://anvaka.github.io/lsystem/

L-Systems are named after one of the co-authors of a book called The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, which is a deep dive into basically the math of plants. Very much changed how I look at plants.

I bring up the GDP only to point out that some graphs with scary numbers don't really mean much. I don't think "GDP go up" means the middle class isn't getting fucked.

Broadly, I agree that we should manufacture more. I just think that the jobs aren't "coming back", and framing it that way leads to people arguing along political lines. I'd be interested in seeing more of a breakdown than the charts I posted above. Which manufacturing industries have kept growing in the US? Clearly not electronics, as you point out. I like your tax-based proposal, though.

Great follow-up to "I don't like NumPy", it's always better to show by example how things could be better. Minor nit, it would be nice if the different code samples at the end were displayed side-by-side somehow. Also wondering if the assert x.ndim == 1 in softmax_dumpy somehow meaningful? The other examples, including "DumPy (alternate)", don't have that check.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three_Apples

A fisherman discovers a heavy locked chest along the Tigris river. He sells it to the Abbasid Caliph, Harun al-Rashid, who then has the chest broken open only to find inside it the dead body of a young woman who was cut into pieces. Harun orders his vizier, Ja'far ibn Yahya, to solve the crime and find the murderer within three days or else he will have him executed. Ja'far, however, despairs of his inability to find the culprit and remains in his home for all three days. On the fourth day, Harun is about to have Ja'far executed for his failure when two men appear, one a handsome young man and the other an old man, both claiming to be the murderer. They argue and call each other liars as each attempts to claim responsibility for the crime. This continues until the young man proves that he is the murderer by accurately describing the chest in which the woman was found.

The young man reveals that he was the woman's husband and the old man her father (and also the husband's uncle, making the couple cousins), who was attempting to save his son-in-law by taking the blame. Harun then demands to know his motives for murdering his wife, and the young man answers. He eulogizes her as a faultless wife and mother of his three children, and describes how one day, she requested a rare apple while being ill. This prompted him on a two-week-long journey to Basra, where he found three such apples at the Caliph's orchard. On his return to Baghdad, he found out that she was too ill to eat them. When he returned to work at his shop, he discovered a slave passing by with a similar apple. He asked him where he had gotten it and the slave replied that he received it from his girlfriend, who had three such apples, which her husband found for her after a half-month journey. The young man, suspecting his wife of unfaithfulness, rushed home to look at how many apples she still had. After finding one of them missing, he drew a knife and killed her. He then attempted to get rid of the evidence by cutting her body to pieces, wrapping it in multiple layers of shawls and carpets, hiding her body in a locked chest, and abandoning it in the Tigris river. After he returned home, however, his eldest son confessed to him that he was the one who took one of the apples behind his mother's back, and a slave had taken it and run off with it. The boy has told the slave about his father's quest for the three apples in a bid to get it back, but the slave instead beat him and ran off before the boy could catch him. Out of guilt, the young man concludes his story by requesting Harun to execute him for his unjust murder. Harun, however, refuses to punish the young man out of sympathy, and instead sets Ja'far on a new assignment: to find the slave who caused the tragedy within three days, or be executed for his failure.

Ja'far yet again remains home for all three days and fails to find the culprit before the deadline has passed. He is summoned to be executed for his failure. As he bids farewell to all his family members, he hugs his beloved youngest daughter last. It is then, by complete accident, that he discovers a round object in her pocket, which she reveals to be an apple with the name of the Caliph written on it. In the story's twist ending, the girl reveals that she brought it from their slave, Rayhan. Ja'far thus realizes that his own slave was the culprit all along. He then finds Rayhan and solves the case as a result, arresting him and taking him to the Caliph. Ja'far, however, pleads to Harun to forgive his slave and, in exchange, narrates to him the Tale of Núr al-Dín Alí and His Son Badr al-Dín Hasan. The Caliph, amazed by the story, pardons the slave. To console the young man who mistakenly killed the wife he loved, the Caliph offers a concubine from his harem as a wife, showers him with gifts and cherishes him until his death.

We need to expand this map and put that on there for them:

We're finally free!

From what I understand, manufacturing hasn't stopped, or even declined. It's still going strong, it's just a much smaller percentage of the GDP now. Here's a chart that shows that trend (the source of the chart itself looks like some business-y site, but they say the data is drawn from the UN):

Here's a scary chart showing the decline of manufacturing:

But notice that it's as a percentage of GDP

So I don't think anybody's saying that we need to stop countries from developing, just that once a country develops a strong manufacturing base, they don't have to limit their economy to only or mostly manufacturing.

Oh, I see. The next strip should answer your question, but I think it's because the city is sticking around long enough to tell her about the ancient curse that was lifted, and then it goes poof. It can ignore its own rules, but in a way she also gets dumped out of the city since it disappears.

Depends on how you look at it, I guess. If you have the knowledge that it doesn't matter what you do in life because you'll be tortured for eternity anyways, I think a lot of people would spend their time differently.

It's a well-written article about why tariffs won't work. I think everyone on Lemmy probably knows that already though. What I found interesting is that every developed country seems to follow the same trend. Pushing for going back to manufacturing might be the national equivalent of "I don't want to grow up!".

This seems like a way better approach:

A recent report from Tim Bartik at the Upjohn Institute suggests that the most impactful policies for struggling manufacturing-heavy communities include:

• Customized services for small and medium businesses, including manufacturing extension services and job training services

• Public spending on education, from preschool and K-12 to colleges and universities, as well as vocational education and job training programs for workers

• Public investment in infrastructure and increasing land supply for business and housing development

Less effective policies include broad tax cuts for business, targeted business attraction incentives and attempts to reduce workers’ wages. One of the best ways to fund investment in distressed communities is with broad-based tax increases, while one of the worst ways is to cut K-12 education spending.

"A bird will become your most pressing issue"